Evaluation Training that Fuels Social Innovation

March 3 - 5, 2014
Waterloo, ON

This two-day plus learning event is geared to senior leaders in organizations committed to making change on challenging problems. Participants will learn principles and approaches to strategic learning and risk-taking that will allow them to leverage data in support of better decision-making, design and development. The conference will feature international policy and evaluation experts who will work with participants on how to be bold, how to use evaluation for its higher purpose and how to strengthen cultures in organizations focused on learning and risk-taking.

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To participate in the workshop you must:

• Be committed to trying a new strategy, approach or idea in your organization
• Be a change maker in the non-profit sector
• Be open to having fun and learning how to make evaluation work for you

The cost for registration is $1250 ($625 for any additional participants) and will include:

• The development of a detailed change and evaluation plan
• Tuesday night keynote speaker and networking reception
• Two plus days of active learning
• Exposure to leading experts and funders interested in supporting strategic learning
• Meals & beverages for two breakfasts, two lunches, and two receptions
• Coaches throughout the three day event who will support your personal learning goals as it pertains to evaluation, making change and creating an evaluative culture

Waterfront Centre
555 Bay St N, Hamilton, Ontario

Join internationally recognized trainer and community builder Liz Weaver for a workshop that provides participants with an overview of collective impact and how this approach can enhance the impact of community change efforts.

• Learn how collaborative tables can organize for change
• Explore how the application of the three preconditions of collective impact and the five conditions for community change can enhance your local efforts
• Advance your community’s agenda with tools and techniques that move towards impact
• Embrace the power of citizen engagement and collective impact

Why Collective Impact?

Increasingly, community organizations are engaging in collaboration as a means to try and solve some of the most complex issues that they face. But these challenging issues require a new approach, a new framework. In the Winter of 2011, John Kania and Mark Kramer of FSG Social Impact Consultants wrote an article, Collective Impact, that changed how we look at collaboration. Collective impact provides a framework for multi-sector community-based roundtables to re-consider how community change should occur and what impact these efforts should have.

Liz Weaver will lead the group through the key questions collaborative tables need to consider before applying the collective impact framework and share examples, tools and resources participants can use to scale up their collaborative community change efforts.

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This January, we are bringing what we’ve learned and what we don’t yet know. Over three days of workshops, panels, and keynotes, we will dive in, and reimagine the ways that we work together.

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